YA Book Tour- Delaware

Next up on the United States of YA book tour Delaware represent by Julie Schumacher's The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls. Let me just go ahead and throw out there that there must not be many YA books that take place in Delaware, because if this one was the top pick for the state then there must be some slim pickings.

Adrienne Haus injured her knee and is unable to go on her planned camping trip for the summer.  So her mother creates a mother daughter book club with mothers of other girls in her upcoming AP class.

Let me start by saying that in theory this sounded like it could be a good book, but it totally missed the mark, in fact I think it went in the opposite direction of the mark.

Adrienne's character has an extremely dull personality, and is easily talked into things she that she really doesn't want to do by one of the other girls, CeeCee.  In fact in the beginning of the book CeeCee ask Adrienne what kind of girl she is, and even she can't come up with her whole personality.

CeeCee's character is definitely pushy and snobbish, which did not make her likable. Jill was kind of a know it all, and also very pushy. Wallis seemed like the only character with potential.  She basically invites herself to the book club, and her mother is never able to attend.  She is very private about where she lives and having her picture taken.  And after a strange encounter with a drunk Adrienne, you are really left wondering what is her deal.  SPOILER ALERT: you are still wondering what her deal is at the end of the book.

I really felt like that there was not really a cohesive plot to the book, and that it brought up way too may topics that author never really addressed to my satisfaction.  Besides Wallis issues, I was left wondering what is the big secret about Adrienne's father, and what bad thing happened to Adrienne's mother at the beach many years ago.

On top of all the the character and plot issues, the format of the book was a little off putting.  It was suppose to be like Adrienne's English paper, so at the beginning of each character there was a definition to the components of story telling.

Oh, and one more thing, that probably wouldn't bothered me so much if the rest of the book was good, the girls are suppose to be going into 11th grade, but somehow they are all 15.  I don't know about Delaware, but most of the rest of the country starts their junior year of high school at 16.


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